Tatterdemalion (noun)
tat-er-di-mal-ee-on
A person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
1600–10; first written tatter-de-mallian and rhymed with Italian; tatter 1; -de-mallian. ?
Example sentences
“He was known as a tatterdemalion, but loved for his brilliant mind.”
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